Striped bandicoot
Appearance
Striped bandicoot[1] | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
Order: | Peramelemorphia |
Family: | Peramelidae |
Genus: | Microperoryctes |
Species: | M. longicauda
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Binomial name | |
Microperoryctes longicauda | |
Striped bandicoot range |
The striped bandicoot (Microperoryctes longicauda) is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is found in West Papua and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.[2] The striped bandicoot is a host of the Acanthocephalan intestinal parasite Australiformis semoni.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Groves, C. P. (2005). Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd ed.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 42. ISBN 0-801-88221-4. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b Leary, T.; Wright, D.; Hamilton, S.; Singadan, R.; Menzies, J.; Bonaccorso, F.J.; Helgen, K.; Seri, L.; Aplin, K.; Dickman, C.; Salas, L. (2016). "Microperoryctes longicauda". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T84783217A21965649. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T84783217A21965649.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
- ^ Schmidt, Gerald D.; Edmonds, Stanley J. (1989). "Australiformis semoni (Linstow, 1898) n. Gen., n. Comb. (Acanthocephala: Moniliformidae) from Marsupials of Australia and New Guinea". The Journal of Parasitology. 75 (2): 215–7. doi:10.2307/3282769. JSTOR 3282769. PMID 2926590.